Wilson Pickett- 634-5789
Added 2025-09-11 22:29:15 +0000 UTCComments
Wilson Pickett did an interesting cover of the Beatles song Hey Jude, just weeks after the Beatles released it. How that came to be was a random meeting with Duane Allman(of the Allman Brothers) at a recording studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama. Wilson was at the studio looking for something to record and Duane was making ends meet by being a session guitarist at the studio. The Allman brothers Band had not yet made it big. Duane talked Wilson into recording Hey Jude. It turned out to be as big a hit as the Beatles version, as Wilson had turned it into his own, and Duane played guitar. After Eric Clapton heard it on the radio, he told his manager to find out who played guitar on it immediately. Eric came to an Allman Brothers Band concert, and was astounded at how good the band was. After meeting the band backstage Eric and Duane jammed all night. Eric asked Duane to play slide guitar on his Layla album. He asked for Duane to join his band, but Duane stayed with his brother in his band. All this led to the Allman Brothers getting more publicity and breaking the big time with their Live at Fillmore East album in 1971. People were amazed at how good the band sounded live. Every song on that album is worth reacting to. See what a random meeting led to!
Gary Morse
2025-09-13 02:38:09 +0000 UTCThere is a similar song title "Beechwood 4-5789." "Beechwood" references a mnemonic for one of many two-letter phone exchanges used from the 30's into the early 60's; you would literally dial 234-5789 because on the older rotary dial phones B was 2 and E was 3. In old movies you might hear someone asking a telephone operator to connect them to "KL-ondike 34117" or some other number. KL-ondike (55; K and L were both 5 on the old rotary dials), was a fictitious phone exchange set aside for use in movies and TV, just as 555-xxxx was used after the switch to all-numeric phone numbers. "Beechwood 4-5789" was written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson and George Gordy and recorded by the Marvelettes in 1962 and Carpenters in 1982.
Michael Griffin
2025-09-12 02:57:34 +0000 UTCIt’s gonna surprise you but the back up singers, in that song or Patti LaBelle and the blue notes Other songs you might want to listen to from him are 99 1/2 or I found a love among others
Sourpuss
2025-09-11 22:51:43 +0000 UTC
